Given that you only need one mouse per computer (normally, maybe two or three in an odd setup), but hard drives are in everything from computers, to DVRs, to MP3 players, to mass storage arrays (potentially thousands of them at a time in that case), this makes a lot of sense.
You are are correct.. I forgot Orthodox. They aren't "Protestant", so I remain technically correct, but since they are a huge world wide chunk of Christians, I am in spirit completely wrong.
GP's point is still valid though. Microsoft's main profit point is neither Windows nor Office, it's synergy. Especially in the corporate office environment. They sell you the Windows, and the Windows works best with the Windows Server, and then well, you bought the Windows Server and the Exchange is not much more, so you get the Exchange... but the Exchange works Best with the Outlook, so you get the Outlook, which is MUCH cheaper as part of the Office, so you get the Office too. Hey! The SQL Server will grab auth info from the Active Directory! If you need a database, you should get the SQL Server, which works better with the IIS, which really wants the Visual Studios to develop the VB and....
You get the idea. When you buy Windows you are often on the slippery slop of becoming a "Microsoft Shop" often one product at a time. But if you never buy Windows, why buy all that other stuff? If you replace Windows, most of that stuff becomes either unnecessary or counter productive. So if some little 100 man company replaces all of their Windows PCs with Macs, Microsoft hasn't just lost 100 Windows sales, chances are they've lost server sales, IIS sales, Exchange sales... On and on. Even if the company does get MS office, it's still a pretty big hit on what they COULD have bought. Now multiply that by 10 or 100 or 1000.
Microsoft is still in no danger of going out of business, but loss of desktop sales hurts them far beyond just the individual license sale lost. The main hole in GPs argument it that most of the lost Windows sales are for home use. The synergy is less important there. I wasn't buying a full fledged tech infrastructure for my house anyway, so MS hasn't lost many potential synergy sales because I bought a Mac or switched to Linux. Still some businesses are switching, so the tide MAY be turning, but it's going to be a long while before you see Apple or Linux get the kind of penetration on business workstations that they're starting to get in the home. (At least partially because a lot of businesses have already invested a fortune in those infrastructure synergies, and don't want to lose them)
IIRC from Religious Studies in university (Catholic university), only Catholics believe in transubstantiation among the major Christian groups. There may be some unusual Protestant group out there which does, but most celebrate communion as a symbolic rite, not a literal one as Catholics do.
No, my first line indicates that it is not the user's choice which OS is used in their work environment (or at least it often isn't. I've had a couple of jobs where I could chose my workstation platform, but far more where I couldn't). I then point out that there are choices that the user CAN make, but which OS they use at a particular job is often not one of them. I also point out that to make those choices, in the context of the original posters remarks, is silly.
If I say to you, "I am having trouble using Windows to do my job" and you response is "Use Linux", that's fine. If I further comment that my job won't let me use Linux, for you to further attempt to convince to me to either do so anyway, or find a new job, is taking things out of the context of the original discussion. My problem is with using Windows to do my job, quitting or getting fired by violating company IT policy doesn't solve that problem. I still can't use Windows to do my current job, and I still can't switch OSes at that job. It's quite likely that I like my job and losing it completely over a frustration with a specific OS on a specific application is nuts.
Except that in most cases the choice is not the user's to make. If my company has made a decision to use Windows, then my choices are to either quit or stage some sort of elaborate civil disobedience likely to get me fired. Since, in most cases, and specifically in the GPs case, the question is one of using the computer to get specific work done for a specific company; both options seem like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Most of us chose to give up a little freedom (the freedom to chose our own platform in the work environment) in exchange for a greater freedom (the freedom to buy out own choice of platform with the money we make, as well as the ability to power that platform and house it in a comfortable use environment, etc.)
But Money market accounts are loans to the bank that handles your trading. You loan "x" amount of money to the bank or other trading entity and they use that money to do trades, giving you a percentage of the profit (or deducting a percentage of the loss). You are correct that buying and selling stock in and of itself is not loaning anyone money, but the way most of us do it (and the way the GP specifically mentioned) is through accounts where you are loaning your money to an group fund.
The simple answer is that there is a clinical and non-clinical definition of the word "addicted". If I observe a person playing WoW 12-16 hours a day, I might say that person is addicted to the game. From a non-clinical standpoint I am correct. They feel compelled to play the game all of the time, regardless of the reason for their choice (because all of their friends are there, because they feel like they fit in there, or because of some true, clinical, addiction) they are displaying what a laymen would call an addictive behavior. Physiologists have a clinical definition of the word which has a more specific definition, and requires someone to repeat the same behavior over and over because of a clinical or physiological bond to the behavior itself.
To use a more concrete, real world, example: imagine you have started smoking because all of your friend smoke, and you are up to a pack a day. Now imagine that you are, for some reason, immune to the physically addictive properties of tobacco. Now imagine that all of your friends abruptly stop smoking or you get new friends. Not being physically addicted, and only having picked up the habit because you wanted to fit in, you stop smoking as well. While you exhibited the behavior of an addict (smoking all the time) you were never really addicted to smoking, you smoked to fit in with your friends.
Essentially what this study is saying is that the majority of gaming "addicts" aren't actually "addicted" to games, they simply play them a lot of the same reason other people might go to bars a lot, or a crochet club a lot, or talk on HAM radios a lot. They feel like they fit in there and they've built a social circle (a guild in a MMORPG, a team on a server for an online shooter, or whatever) inside in the virtual world they inhabit. They obsess over gear and min/maxing stats for the same reason that my manager at work obsesses over his scuba equipment, or a car nut might obsess over ecking one more horsepower out of their engine. It gives them status in the mini-world of hobbyists that they choose to inhabit.
To be fair, I use fast quest dialog, and I DO read the quests and appreciate the story. I use the fast dialog for two reasons, the first is that I read and comprehend faster that the slow-assed way WoW writes the quests out without it, and the second is that occasionally you have to click through the dialog without reading it. This mainly occurs when the turn in for the quest is some guy or object standing in the middle of a room full of fast spawning MOBs. I've literally died from waiting for the "accept" button to appear on a quest dialog.
And most of the first 10-15 years of that had VERY few games with any story beyond "shoot the alien ships and collect power-ups". Excepting the odd "Zork" or "Oregon Trail" story based games are really more like ~20 years old.
Having said that, I HAVE read the application and the method is the same one that every fast food company, every sandwich shop and, I would guess, the vast majority of restaurants of any size uses to make sandwiches. Why would McDonald's even apply for a patent with such obvious and huge stores of prior art. Even if the patent is approved it will never stand up in court. Unless they pan to patent troll mom and pop restaurants that can't afford lawyers.
Exactly. It's almost certainly not her fault that the (probably insanely expensive) grease gun exploded all over the bag causing her to have to try and clean the damned thing out in uncontained 0 G. I doubt that was in her training scenarios.
Ironically, it does multitask, just not with user apps. I think this is intended to deal with it's relatively small RAM amounts. The mail, text messaging, and phone apps are always running in the background or you couldn't get mail and phone calls when you were doing other things. The iPod app can also run in the background, though it doesn't always. You can listen to music while surfing the web or playing a game if you choose though.
IMO if you have the HD box (at least with TimeWarner it's still a different option than the SD box) any channel with an HD equivalent should be blocked or mapped to HD or something.
Ack! Don't do this, at least not yet. Bandwidth at my last house was sketchy sometimes on the TV side (Internet was great though). I'd get pixelation on the HD channels and have to switch to SD. Sometimes channels would get unwatchable for periods of time. Cox was always "looking into it", and I didn't push as hard as i should because the SD channels didn't bother me that much. I'm sure others have this problem.
This is true to an extent in MMORPGs too. Sign on to WOW right now; I bet you will find that on any given server around half of the population is in the newbie areas of Northrend (the new expansion continent), 10-15% are in the higher areas of Northrend, another 10-15% in the Death Knight start area or leveling a Death Knight in Outlands, and 20% or less in the rest of the world. It'll balance some eventually... New people will come in, veterans will make new characters again, but for the time being most of the world is a ghost town (full of NPCs wondering if anyone will ever come kill 12 wolves for them again) .
I believe it's driver implemented in OS 10.5. My old first gen Macbook Pro that I used to have from my old job couldn't do it with 10.4 but could once I upgraded, my newer Macbook that I got a few month ago could do it out of the box. You do have to enable it in the mouse setup if you upgrade I think. I assume that any Mac running Leopard can do it, but it could be that there is some level at which the hardware is no longer compatible.
The new glass multitouch track pads on the latest laptops can do more (zoom in and out, and even programmable gestures from what I've heard), but as far as I know the gestures on the older trackpads are just the two finger right-click and the two finger drag.
You can multitouch a right click by tapping two finger simultaneously. It takes a minute or two to get used to but the Mac multitouch touch-pads are the best way to mouse outside of actually using a mouse that I've found. I still prefer to keep a wireless mouse around, but on the rare occasions that I don't have one I'd rather have a Mac than anything else. When I have to use the touch pads on the server KVM/Montor/KB/mouse drawers at work I constantly try to right click by two finger tapping or scroll with two finger dragging. Of all the things to hate about the Mac the right click thing has totally disappeared. It works better on Mac hardware/software than on anything else I've used.
Unless the standard involves carrying color data across a specific wire... I don't know how HDMI works, but I've seen DVI and VGA cables where the "red" wire broke and you get perfectly good picture that just has no red in it.
I personally don't hate the woman per se, but as the above poster pointed out, she was running for more than a "normal" VP slot. There was a far better than average chance that she could wind up POTUS, despite John McCain's fairly good health. At 78 people have been know to go from healthy to dead in a year, or more rarely even a month or instantly. Granted this has happened to 50 year olds too, but the odds are a lot better at 50 or even 70 than at 78. This scared people quite a bit and fear causes anger.
I also think a lot of people were angry at McCain for picking her (either because they felt betrayed, having expected a moderate, or because they felt like he was being irresponsible) and that anger also boiled over onto Palin. After all his rhetoric about being a maveric, and reaching across the isle, a lot of people who voted for McCain in teh primaries expected him to pick a Lieberman type liberal Republican or independent as his running mate. After all his rhetoric about Obama being to inexperienced and not ready for the responsibility, they expected someone with experience. Instead they got Palin, her religious views were clearly intended to pander to Religious Right, she had less experience by far than Obama by almost any measure, what little was known about her positions on the issues were fairly far right of McCain's own (which had shifted right already during his campaign), and there was a transparent "A lot of you gals wanted to vote for a woman, so here ya go" feel to her selection.
Add to to all of this some really spectacularly scary early interviews where she (as I mentioned above) seemed unclear on some the basic concept of current policy and government, not to mention ignorant of current events and even cultural icons like the New York Times and the Washington Post (or Hell, USA Today). Liberals, moderates, and even moderate conservatives were angry about what appeared to a lot of people to either be a stunningly ill-considered choice or a deliberate slap in the face. Frightened or angry people can be more inclined to hateful rhetoric than they might otherwise be. To make matters worse, instead of disappearing into obscurity after the election like everyone expected, she's been practically campaigning for a 2012 run, and enough of the hard core Republican base seems to like her to make this a possibility.
Actually I found Leopard to be slightly more responsive than Tiger on the same hardware. Might have been my imagination, but it was certainly no slower. MacOS tends to be pretty good for for two or even three OS iterations on a given computer and at least usable for an iteration or two past that. I remember putting OS 10.3 on a G3 iMac for a professor in the 2003-4 time frame when his HDD crapped out and no one could find the OS 8 or OS 9 or whatever it was CDs that came with the machine. It was no speed demon, but the OS was usable and he could do e-mail/web/TeX editing.
That was my experience in the chain pizza place I worked for in high school. Only exception was we worked till done on the close, not until a set time. We got paid for it though. In fact, for security reasons the closing employee HAD to stay with the closing manager until s/he finished the money closeout. Typically the last 10-20 minutes of my shift was spent watching the manager count money (I was never a manager at that place, but the drawer closeout seemed really complex, the manager almost never finished before the employee finished the nightly cleanup). We were paid for all of that time. There were unpaid breaks, but they were the legally required 15 minutes for a four hour shift or 30 minutes for a 6 or more hour shift. I'd have definitely bitched if they made us work off the clock or sit around and wait for business to pick up without paying us.
IIRC it's on you to prove you were fired for (x) reason, not on the employer to prove that you weren't fired because they felt like it. This can be pretty damned hard to do unless you can get the idiots to speak into a recording device saying you were fired for whistle blowing. It can happen though. A guy I knew in the National Guard was refused promotion because the company didn't like how often he was gone on weekends (he was a car salesman and weekends were important to business). He reported the problem to JAG, and they told him that there was likely nothing they could do in an "at will" state, but they'd look into it for him. The JAG called the dealership and they told him, an officer of the court, to his face, that they'd refused the guy's promotion because he was in the Guard.
Except in cases of extreme ignorance like that though, unlawful termination/failure to hire suits tend to be really hard to win. 90% of the time the JAGs couldn't help. Employers are usually smart enough not even to give a reason to the terminated employee, let alone to do so in a legally admissible way.
Look, I'm really sorry to have to the 17 thousandth person to have to say this, but the courts treat copyrighted works on media differently than they do physical objects. Like it or dislike it, right or wrong, when you purchase a copy writed work on media you "purchase" a) a media (CD, DVD, book, Whatever) and b) a license to use the copy writed work in the manner contractually agreed to by you and the copy write holder. You can do whatever you want with the media (oh, look, a Frisbee!), but you can only do with the copy writed work what you've been given the right to do by the copy write holder or by the law (fair use, resale via the first sale doctrine, etc). You don't "own it". This is the way the law works. It might be right, it might be wrong, but if you want to change it you have to change the law, not just declare yourself the owner of every copy writed work you buy.
The Ford engine analogy, while lovely, is legally useless. Please stop using it unless or until copy write law is rewritten to make it in any way valid.
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Given that you only need one mouse per computer (normally, maybe two or three in an odd setup), but hard drives are in everything from computers, to DVRs, to MP3 players, to mass storage arrays (potentially thousands of them at a time in that case), this makes a lot of sense.
You are are correct.. I forgot Orthodox. They aren't "Protestant", so I remain technically correct, but since they are a huge world wide chunk of Christians, I am in spirit completely wrong.
GP's point is still valid though. Microsoft's main profit point is neither Windows nor Office, it's synergy. Especially in the corporate office environment. They sell you the Windows, and the Windows works best with the Windows Server, and then well, you bought the Windows Server and the Exchange is not much more, so you get the Exchange... but the Exchange works Best with the Outlook, so you get the Outlook, which is MUCH cheaper as part of the Office, so you get the Office too. Hey! The SQL Server will grab auth info from the Active Directory! If you need a database, you should get the SQL Server, which works better with the IIS, which really wants the Visual Studios to develop the VB and ....
You get the idea. When you buy Windows you are often on the slippery slop of becoming a "Microsoft Shop" often one product at a time. But if you never buy Windows, why buy all that other stuff? If you replace Windows, most of that stuff becomes either unnecessary or counter productive. So if some little 100 man company replaces all of their Windows PCs with Macs, Microsoft hasn't just lost 100 Windows sales, chances are they've lost server sales, IIS sales, Exchange sales... On and on. Even if the company does get MS office, it's still a pretty big hit on what they COULD have bought. Now multiply that by 10 or 100 or 1000.
Microsoft is still in no danger of going out of business, but loss of desktop sales hurts them far beyond just the individual license sale lost. The main hole in GPs argument it that most of the lost Windows sales are for home use. The synergy is less important there. I wasn't buying a full fledged tech infrastructure for my house anyway, so MS hasn't lost many potential synergy sales because I bought a Mac or switched to Linux. Still some businesses are switching, so the tide MAY be turning, but it's going to be a long while before you see Apple or Linux get the kind of penetration on business workstations that they're starting to get in the home. (At least partially because a lot of businesses have already invested a fortune in those infrastructure synergies, and don't want to lose them)
IIRC from Religious Studies in university (Catholic university), only Catholics believe in transubstantiation among the major Christian groups. There may be some unusual Protestant group out there which does, but most celebrate communion as a symbolic rite, not a literal one as Catholics do.
No, my first line indicates that it is not the user's choice which OS is used in their work environment (or at least it often isn't. I've had a couple of jobs where I could chose my workstation platform, but far more where I couldn't). I then point out that there are choices that the user CAN make, but which OS they use at a particular job is often not one of them. I also point out that to make those choices, in the context of the original posters remarks, is silly.
If I say to you, "I am having trouble using Windows to do my job" and you response is "Use Linux", that's fine. If I further comment that my job won't let me use Linux, for you to further attempt to convince to me to either do so anyway, or find a new job, is taking things out of the context of the original discussion. My problem is with using Windows to do my job, quitting or getting fired by violating company IT policy doesn't solve that problem. I still can't use Windows to do my current job, and I still can't switch OSes at that job. It's quite likely that I like my job and losing it completely over a frustration with a specific OS on a specific application is nuts.
Except that in most cases the choice is not the user's to make. If my company has made a decision to use Windows, then my choices are to either quit or stage some sort of elaborate civil disobedience likely to get me fired. Since, in most cases, and specifically in the GPs case, the question is one of using the computer to get specific work done for a specific company; both options seem like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Most of us chose to give up a little freedom (the freedom to chose our own platform in the work environment) in exchange for a greater freedom (the freedom to buy out own choice of platform with the money we make, as well as the ability to power that platform and house it in a comfortable use environment, etc.)
But Money market accounts are loans to the bank that handles your trading. You loan "x" amount of money to the bank or other trading entity and they use that money to do trades, giving you a percentage of the profit (or deducting a percentage of the loss). You are correct that buying and selling stock in and of itself is not loaning anyone money, but the way most of us do it (and the way the GP specifically mentioned) is through accounts where you are loaning your money to an group fund.
The simple answer is that there is a clinical and non-clinical definition of the word "addicted". If I observe a person playing WoW 12-16 hours a day, I might say that person is addicted to the game. From a non-clinical standpoint I am correct. They feel compelled to play the game all of the time, regardless of the reason for their choice (because all of their friends are there, because they feel like they fit in there, or because of some true, clinical, addiction) they are displaying what a laymen would call an addictive behavior. Physiologists have a clinical definition of the word which has a more specific definition, and requires someone to repeat the same behavior over and over because of a clinical or physiological bond to the behavior itself.
To use a more concrete, real world, example: imagine you have started smoking because all of your friend smoke, and you are up to a pack a day. Now imagine that you are, for some reason, immune to the physically addictive properties of tobacco. Now imagine that all of your friends abruptly stop smoking or you get new friends. Not being physically addicted, and only having picked up the habit because you wanted to fit in, you stop smoking as well. While you exhibited the behavior of an addict (smoking all the time) you were never really addicted to smoking, you smoked to fit in with your friends.
Essentially what this study is saying is that the majority of gaming "addicts" aren't actually "addicted" to games, they simply play them a lot of the same reason other people might go to bars a lot, or a crochet club a lot, or talk on HAM radios a lot. They feel like they fit in there and they've built a social circle (a guild in a MMORPG, a team on a server for an online shooter, or whatever) inside in the virtual world they inhabit. They obsess over gear and min/maxing stats for the same reason that my manager at work obsesses over his scuba equipment, or a car nut might obsess over ecking one more horsepower out of their engine. It gives them status in the mini-world of hobbyists that they choose to inhabit.
To be fair, I use fast quest dialog, and I DO read the quests and appreciate the story. I use the fast dialog for two reasons, the first is that I read and comprehend faster that the slow-assed way WoW writes the quests out without it, and the second is that occasionally you have to click through the dialog without reading it. This mainly occurs when the turn in for the quest is some guy or object standing in the middle of a room full of fast spawning MOBs. I've literally died from waiting for the "accept" button to appear on a quest dialog.
And most of the first 10-15 years of that had VERY few games with any story beyond "shoot the alien ships and collect power-ups". Excepting the odd "Zork" or "Oregon Trail" story based games are really more like ~20 years old.
Having said that, I HAVE read the application and the method is the same one that every fast food company, every sandwich shop and, I would guess, the vast majority of restaurants of any size uses to make sandwiches. Why would McDonald's even apply for a patent with such obvious and huge stores of prior art. Even if the patent is approved it will never stand up in court. Unless they pan to patent troll mom and pop restaurants that can't afford lawyers.
Exactly. It's almost certainly not her fault that the (probably insanely expensive) grease gun exploded all over the bag causing her to have to try and clean the damned thing out in uncontained 0 G. I doubt that was in her training scenarios.
Ironically, it does multitask, just not with user apps. I think this is intended to deal with it's relatively small RAM amounts. The mail, text messaging, and phone apps are always running in the background or you couldn't get mail and phone calls when you were doing other things. The iPod app can also run in the background, though it doesn't always. You can listen to music while surfing the web or playing a game if you choose though.
IMO if you have the HD box (at least with TimeWarner it's still a different option than the SD box) any channel with an HD equivalent should be blocked or mapped to HD or something.
Ack! Don't do this, at least not yet. Bandwidth at my last house was sketchy sometimes on the TV side (Internet was great though). I'd get pixelation on the HD channels and have to switch to SD. Sometimes channels would get unwatchable for periods of time. Cox was always "looking into it", and I didn't push as hard as i should because the SD channels didn't bother me that much. I'm sure others have this problem.
This is true to an extent in MMORPGs too. Sign on to WOW right now; I bet you will find that on any given server around half of the population is in the newbie areas of Northrend (the new expansion continent), 10-15% are in the higher areas of Northrend, another 10-15% in the Death Knight start area or leveling a Death Knight in Outlands, and 20% or less in the rest of the world. It'll balance some eventually... New people will come in, veterans will make new characters again, but for the time being most of the world is a ghost town (full of NPCs wondering if anyone will ever come kill 12 wolves for them again) .
I believe it's driver implemented in OS 10.5. My old first gen Macbook Pro that I used to have from my old job couldn't do it with 10.4 but could once I upgraded, my newer Macbook that I got a few month ago could do it out of the box. You do have to enable it in the mouse setup if you upgrade I think. I assume that any Mac running Leopard can do it, but it could be that there is some level at which the hardware is no longer compatible.
The new glass multitouch track pads on the latest laptops can do more (zoom in and out, and even programmable gestures from what I've heard), but as far as I know the gestures on the older trackpads are just the two finger right-click and the two finger drag.
You can multitouch a right click by tapping two finger simultaneously. It takes a minute or two to get used to but the Mac multitouch touch-pads are the best way to mouse outside of actually using a mouse that I've found. I still prefer to keep a wireless mouse around, but on the rare occasions that I don't have one I'd rather have a Mac than anything else. When I have to use the touch pads on the server KVM/Montor/KB/mouse drawers at work I constantly try to right click by two finger tapping or scroll with two finger dragging. Of all the things to hate about the Mac the right click thing has totally disappeared. It works better on Mac hardware/software than on anything else I've used.
Unless the standard involves carrying color data across a specific wire... I don't know how HDMI works, but I've seen DVI and VGA cables where the "red" wire broke and you get perfectly good picture that just has no red in it.
So that's why my spell checker hated that whole post. Doh. Thanks
I personally don't hate the woman per se, but as the above poster pointed out, she was running for more than a "normal" VP slot. There was a far better than average chance that she could wind up POTUS, despite John McCain's fairly good health. At 78 people have been know to go from healthy to dead in a year, or more rarely even a month or instantly. Granted this has happened to 50 year olds too, but the odds are a lot better at 50 or even 70 than at 78. This scared people quite a bit and fear causes anger.
I also think a lot of people were angry at McCain for picking her (either because they felt betrayed, having expected a moderate, or because they felt like he was being irresponsible) and that anger also boiled over onto Palin. After all his rhetoric about being a maveric, and reaching across the isle, a lot of people who voted for McCain in teh primaries expected him to pick a Lieberman type liberal Republican or independent as his running mate. After all his rhetoric about Obama being to inexperienced and not ready for the responsibility, they expected someone with experience. Instead they got Palin, her religious views were clearly intended to pander to Religious Right, she had less experience by far than Obama by almost any measure, what little was known about her positions on the issues were fairly far right of McCain's own (which had shifted right already during his campaign), and there was a transparent "A lot of you gals wanted to vote for a woman, so here ya go" feel to her selection.
Add to to all of this some really spectacularly scary early interviews where she (as I mentioned above) seemed unclear on some the basic concept of current policy and government, not to mention ignorant of current events and even cultural icons like the New York Times and the Washington Post (or Hell, USA Today). Liberals, moderates, and even moderate conservatives were angry about what appeared to a lot of people to either be a stunningly ill-considered choice or a deliberate slap in the face. Frightened or angry people can be more inclined to hateful rhetoric than they might otherwise be. To make matters worse, instead of disappearing into obscurity after the election like everyone expected, she's been practically campaigning for a 2012 run, and enough of the hard core Republican base seems to like her to make this a possibility.
Actually I found Leopard to be slightly more responsive than Tiger on the same hardware. Might have been my imagination, but it was certainly no slower. MacOS tends to be pretty good for for two or even three OS iterations on a given computer and at least usable for an iteration or two past that. I remember putting OS 10.3 on a G3 iMac for a professor in the 2003-4 time frame when his HDD crapped out and no one could find the OS 8 or OS 9 or whatever it was CDs that came with the machine. It was no speed demon, but the OS was usable and he could do e-mail/web/TeX editing.
That was my experience in the chain pizza place I worked for in high school. Only exception was we worked till done on the close, not until a set time. We got paid for it though. In fact, for security reasons the closing employee HAD to stay with the closing manager until s/he finished the money closeout. Typically the last 10-20 minutes of my shift was spent watching the manager count money (I was never a manager at that place, but the drawer closeout seemed really complex, the manager almost never finished before the employee finished the nightly cleanup). We were paid for all of that time. There were unpaid breaks, but they were the legally required 15 minutes for a four hour shift or 30 minutes for a 6 or more hour shift. I'd have definitely bitched if they made us work off the clock or sit around and wait for business to pick up without paying us.
IIRC it's on you to prove you were fired for (x) reason, not on the employer to prove that you weren't fired because they felt like it. This can be pretty damned hard to do unless you can get the idiots to speak into a recording device saying you were fired for whistle blowing. It can happen though. A guy I knew in the National Guard was refused promotion because the company didn't like how often he was gone on weekends (he was a car salesman and weekends were important to business). He reported the problem to JAG, and they told him that there was likely nothing they could do in an "at will" state, but they'd look into it for him. The JAG called the dealership and they told him, an officer of the court, to his face, that they'd refused the guy's promotion because he was in the Guard.
Except in cases of extreme ignorance like that though, unlawful termination/failure to hire suits tend to be really hard to win. 90% of the time the JAGs couldn't help. Employers are usually smart enough not even to give a reason to the terminated employee, let alone to do so in a legally admissible way.
Look, I'm really sorry to have to the 17 thousandth person to have to say this, but the courts treat copyrighted works on media differently than they do physical objects. Like it or dislike it, right or wrong, when you purchase a copy writed work on media you "purchase" a) a media (CD, DVD, book, Whatever) and b) a license to use the copy writed work in the manner contractually agreed to by you and the copy write holder. You can do whatever you want with the media (oh, look, a Frisbee!), but you can only do with the copy writed work what you've been given the right to do by the copy write holder or by the law (fair use, resale via the first sale doctrine, etc). You don't "own it". This is the way the law works. It might be right, it might be wrong, but if you want to change it you have to change the law, not just declare yourself the owner of every copy writed work you buy.
The Ford engine analogy, while lovely, is legally useless. Please stop using it unless or until copy write law is rewritten to make it in any way valid.
I know I'm feeding the troll, but I can't help myself. As I said, 40 years is a long time... The south is not as racist as it once was.